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A crack unit of elite counter-terrorism officers will be among a deployment of 23 000 police ensuring safety at the Tour de France, which begins in Dusseldorf on Saturday, the French interior ministry said.

Tracy Evans,3 times Olimpian knows better than most just how powerfull a tool for change can be,and she intends to put that knowledge and her network to good use for this year’s olympic day celebrations on June 23

Cristiano Ronaldo has been summoned to appear before a Spanish judge as he and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho became the latest members of the football elite to be accused of tax fraud in Spain.

"If Winnie joined the EFF‚ she would be president right away‚" Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Friday. "She should have been the first female president (of the country)‚ a real president who was not going to be a front for male leadership."

The African Union (AU) and the United Nations are proposing a 44 percent and 30 percent reduction in their troop and police presence in Sudan’s Darfur region as a step towards an eventual exit, a senior UN peacekeeping official has told the Security Council.

More than 120 Christians have been detained in Eritrea in a government-backed crackdown on unregistered denominations across the troubled African nation, Christian activists told BosNewsLife Thursday, June 15.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino and FIFA Deputy Secretary General Zvonimir Boban invited the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to visit the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich on Thursday, 8 June 2017.

Ernest Sugira has arrived in Rwanda after a busy weekend’s travel in the Champions League, to feature for his country in their African Nations Cup qualifier against the Central African Republic, officials said.

Cristiano Ronaldo understandably took the accolades as his two goals helped to fire Real Madrid to a 12th European Cup but fundamental to their triumph over Juventus on Saturday was midfielder Luka Modric.

The East African Community (EAC) must prioritize ending human rights violations in Burundi, and provide the renewed political leadership and commitment needed to end the crisis, said Amnesty International today in an open letter to the bloc’s leaders, ahead of their summit on 20 May in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam.

First Lady of Kenya Margaret Kenyatta will on Sunday join her counterpart in Rwanda Jeanette Kagame during the Kigali International Peace Marathon that is expected to draw thousands of athletes from across the world.

Football Kenya Federation (FKF) on Thursday remained non-committal on honouring the four-day Genocide Memorial Tournament in Kigali, Rwanda after announcing a series of international friendly matches for the national team in June and July.

It was as long ago as 1977 when Pele famously stated that an African team will lift the World Cup before the end of that century. That prediction, unfortunately, proved to miss the mark. But the Brazilian legend is not the only person to have suggested it wouldn’t be too long before one of the African nations join that elite group and wins the biggest prize in world football, if not in world sport.

Armed intervention in conflicts in Africa, carried out by the UN or AU or joint missions, have always been controversial because the rules of engagement have neither been clear or, more often than not, practical. How far should the mandate of the peacekeeping forces extend? When and how should actual combat be engaged? For what end? A classic example is the failure of the 1994 UN Mission to Rwanda, which failed to prevent the genocide. Clearly, a fresh approach is needed.